Do anyone of you still have a paper driving license ?

[Tender Branson]

I am 35 and I am one of the last people here in Austria to have received the traditional iconic pink paper driving license in 2005.

One or two years later, all the kids got the bank-card-style licenses ...

 

[The Stars Tremble]

Plastic card with holograms and other supposedly unforgeable features.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Been an ID card ever since I started driving in the early 90's. Only paper was 'temporary' license for a short time before given a true license.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

I have always had a card style license since I started driving in the 90s. I am hoping that may state will be an early adopter of allowing you to store them in Apple and Google Wallet.

 

[Tender Branson]

I TOTALLY forgot that Austria has a smartphone app version for IDs such as the driving license, since last year.

People can get the ID Austria app and show police officers their licenses on their phone, tablet etc.

ID Austria

Mein Ich-organisiere-das-von-überall-Ausweis

www.oesterreich.gv.at

I don't use that yet.

 

[EdwinWillers]

I am 35 and I am one of the last people here in Austria to have received the traditional iconic pink paper driving license in 2005.

One or two years later, all the kids got the bank-card-style licenses ...

Hmm... must be an Austria thing. I got my first DL in the '60's - my "learner's permit" was paper, but my official DLs afterwards have always been card.

...which reminds me - I need to get mine renewed. Gak.

 

[Rexedgar]

Pennsylvania in the early 1970s was a paper “card.”

Folded over to fit in the wallet.

 

[mrdeltoid]

I remember my first license here in Maryland in 1971. It was pink cardboard with an outline of the state, and the age, weight, hair and eye color, sex(uh-oh!) and race typed onto it. It was very easy forge. My fake license made me old enough to drink, however, if you looked closely at it, I had blonde eyes and blue hair...... lol

 

[justabubba]

what is this drivers license you speak of, and why should i want one?

 

[Rexedgar]

I remember my first license here in Maryland in 1971. It was pink cardboard with an outline of the state, and the age, weight, hair and eye color, sex(uh-oh!) and race typed onto it. It was very easy forge. My fake license made me old enough to drink, however, if you looked closely at it, I had blonde eyes and blue hair...... lol

I was looking over the PA example in the above post, to see what physical characteristics were listed, none. But there is a glaring error on the document.

 

[mrdeltoid]

I was looking over the PA example in the above post, to see what physical characteristics were listed, none. But there is a glaring error on the document.

Yeah, the DOB looked a little off. lol It didn't look like ours here in Md. at all. It looked a lot more detailed though.

 

[Helix]

Mine have always been plastic cards with my face on them. I had to turn in the first few of them when I got new ones, or I would have collected them all.

 

[Rexedgar]

Yeah, the DOB looked a little off. lol It didn't look like ours here in Md. at all. It looked a lot more detailed though.

Giving off a Marty McFly vibe!

 

[Tender Branson]

In the US, I think you have to renew your driving license every 5 or 10 years, right ?

Here in Austria, the license is valid forever.

Are there any states in the US where you don't have to renew it ?

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

In the US, I think you have to renew your driving license every 5 or 10 years, right ?

Can go either 4 or 8 years now in my state(Ohio) and can renew online if desired, until 65, then must go every 4 in person for eye test. Used to have to do it every 4 at any age no matter what.

Here in Austria, the license is valid forever.

No eye exam there, even when on in the years?.. Sounds troubling.. Bunch of older folks saying "I can see just fine!"
That was my Mom until she had to go last year for renewal. Failed miserably. Off for glasses!

 

[The Mark]

I am 35 and I am one of the last people here in Austria to have received the traditional iconic pink paper driving license in 2005.

One or two years later, all the kids got the bank-card-style licenses ...

We have to replace ours every 4 years, in PA.
Has been a plastic card with holograms and other such security? measures for my entire driving life, which is....2 decades now?